The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer board that plugs into a TV and a keyboard. It’s a miniature ARM-based PC which can be used for many of the things that a desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays High-Definition video. The Raspberry Pi model B board is supplied as the board only, and comes without operating system, SD card, power supply, keyboard, case or cables.

This server, who I named ‘Smaug’ (The dragon in the book ‘The Hobbit’). Is running Raspbian, a modified version of Debian Wheezy.
It has a 8GB SDHC class 10 card as main storage and an external Kingston DataTraveler G3 16GB USB stick as extra storage.

It is running a webserver (Lighttpd), mailserver (Qmail and Courier IMAP), nameserver (NSD), ftpserver (proFTPd) and some monitoring software. Some server information can be found here. It’s IPv6 ready, so all services are accessible via IPv6.

I went looking for a company who would colocated my RPi in a datacenter.
First company I contact was FUSA.be.
I have a small ATOM dedicated server with them so I knew that they would give me a good price.
They where planning to start hosting RPi, so I contacted them at the right time.
FUSA uses DCO a carrier neutral datacenter near Brugge in Belgium.

Here is a picture of ‘Smaug’, before it got connected (click to enlarge):